Personal Fundraising – Take it Upon Yourself to Help Your Favorite Charity
If you volunteer for a charity, support a charity or just want to help a charity, there’s nothing to stop you from fundraising on your own.
There are many ways to raise a few dollars and a few ways to raise many dollars. It can be a one-time thing or an ongoing activity. You may even be able to incorporate fundraising into your normal daily routine or make it a part of some activity you do for fun. Below are just a few ideas to get you thinking.
Ask for sponsors to pay you for accomplishing something. Whether it’s running a marathon, painting a local eyesore or tutoring individuals, donors will often pay you for using your talents or energy.Host a small special event. How about movie night at your house? Or a chili cookoff? Or a raffle with a minor celebrity you know? Use your imagination. People will donate to enjoy themselves.Ask local businesses to donate items they can’t sell or were returned. You can raffle them, auction them, give them as door prizes or anything else where you need merchandise.Beg. No, not really, but just asking people for money is sometimes the easiest route to helping. Decorate cans or buckets and position yourself and your helpers in a busy spot. At the exit of a movie theater, a downtown street corner, the entrance to a busy store, anywhere a lot of people are passing by. Wear T-shirts or badges prominently showing the name of your charity.Make sure your local newspaper is aware of your activities. They love human interest stories. An article about how you, as an individual, are trying to help will encourage others to try the same thing and may result in even more contributions to your cause.
Hopefully this short list will get your creative juices flowing and spur you to do what you can to help. There’s a successful fundraiser in all of us, we just have to take the initiative to get started today.
About Dave Hallier
Dave Hallier is a freelance writer, fundraiser and Internet entrepreneur. His blog, fundraisers-blog.com, is packed full of free, useful fundraising tips and ideas. An example of his personal fundraising activities can be seen at his website eBooksforCharity.com.
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